Moroccan Forestry Policies and Local Forestry Management in the High Atlas: A Cross Analysis of Forestry Administration and Local Institutions

Pierre-Marie Aubert (), Maya Leroy () and Laurent Auclair
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Pierre-Marie Aubert: ERFI - Equipe de Recherche sur la Firme et l'Industrie - UM - Université de Montpellier
Maya Leroy: ERFI - Equipe de Recherche sur la Firme et l'Industrie - UM - Université de Montpellier
Laurent Auclair: IRD [Occitanie] - Institut de Recherche pour le Développement

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Abstract: This paper examines how local forestry management has evolved in the Aït Bougmez Valley (Central High Atlas, Morocco) in the last three decades and how this evolution has affected forest ecosystem conditions. It focuses on the impact of the forestry administration on ‘traditional forestry management' since its introduction in 1985, and of recent innovation in forestry policy. The relatively new Strategic Environmental Management Analysis (SEMA) framework is applied, rather than a more ‘classical' new institutional framework. This approach allows for a more comprehensive understanding of both strategic interactions between various actors and ecological consequences of these interactions. An interesting empirical findings is that instead of a quite simple opposition between the forestry administration and local populations, negotiation opportunities exist that are taken by the actors. This leads to specific actor configurations and sometimes unexpected environmental outcomes, even if from a global point of view, forest stands have been seriously depleted over the last 40 years mainly due to exploitation by local population and the absence of economic alternative to forest exploitation. On the other hand, the implementation of a new policy tool in such a context has to be understood as an opportunity for new actors to take part in forest management rules definition.

Date: 2009
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Published in Small-Scale Forestry, 2009, 8 (2), pp.175-191. ⟨10.1007/s11842-009-9076-4⟩

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DOI: 10.1007/s11842-009-9076-4

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